Butte Electric Cooperative

About Butte Electric Cooperative

Butte Electric Cooperative is an electricity cooperative operating in South Dakota, including cities like Spearfish, Sturgis, Belle Fourche, North Spearfish CDP, and Newell. Recently, the company reported a customer base of 6,765 accounts, 5,665 of which are residential properties, 895 are commercial customer accounts and 205 are industrial accounts. The residential electricity rate for patrons of Butte Electric Cooperative is, on average, 13.40 cents per kilowatt hour, resulting in the supplier ranking 59th out of 74 suppliers in South Dakota and 1679th out of 2893 in the country. In 2019 the company had retail sales of 105,858 megawatt hours. The electricity they sourced consisted of megawatt hours that they procured on the wholesale market. They purchased 110,758 on the wholesale market. Their revenue for 2019 from electricity related activities was $14,830,700, with $14,399,900 from retail sales to end users.

Patrons of the supplier pay an average monthly residential electric bill of $148.35. This is 11.80% higher than the national average bill of $132.69. The supplier is not associated with any power facilities and all of the electricity that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other providers.